Weekly market update – week ending 25 May, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has again seen geopolitical issues dominate with renewed trade worries out of the US, the cancellation of the

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Weekly market update – week ending 18 May, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets were mixed over the last week with Eurozone and Japanese shares up helped by weakness in their currencies,

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Weekly market update -week ending 11 May 2108

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets rose over the last week helped by another Goldilocks combination of good economic data, strong profits and benign

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Weekly market update – week ending 4 May, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week US shares fell over the last week – not helped by profit taking and inflation fears, but Eurozone, Japanese, Chinese and

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Weekly market update – week ending 27 April, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares were mixed over the last week – up in Europe, Japan and Australia but down slightly in the US and

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Weekly market update – week ending 13 April, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets rebounded over the last week as while volatility remained high not helped by worries about a missile strike on

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Weekly market update – week ending 6 April, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets had another volatile week – starting down as the US announced details of proposed 25% tariff hikes on $US50bn

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Weekly market update – week ending 29 March, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets had another messy week with an early bounce as investors realised that trade war fears were overstated but concerns

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Share market volatility – Trump and trade war risks

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Key points Worries about the Fed, trade wars (the risk of which has been significantly exaggerated) and President Trump generally have increased the risk around the global outlook but are

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Weekly market update – week ending 23 March, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets fell again over the last week not helped initially by tech stocks (partly due to a privacy breach at

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